EPISODE · Jul 4, 2021 · 3 MIN
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann
from Access Unmissable Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics · host Jared Berge
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things Are Against Us Author: Lucy Ellmann Narrator: Stephanie Ellyne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 4, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Lucy Ellmann. Provocative, smart, angry, wise, and very, very funny, the essays in Things Are Against Us cover everything - from feminism to environmental catastrophe; labour strikes to sex strikes; Little House On The Prairie to patriarchal terrorism. Lucy calls for a moratorium on air travel. She rails against bras. She gives Agatha Christie a drubbing. And she pleads for sanity in a world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump. Things Are Against Us is electric. It's vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and listening to them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is just the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times. 'Ellmann has long delighted in provocation.” THE NEW YORKER
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/522878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things Are Against Us Author: Lucy Ellmann Narrator: Stephanie Ellyne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 4, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Things Are Against Us is the first collection of essays from Lucy Ellmann. Provocative, smart, angry, wise, and very, very funny, the essays in Things Are Against Us cover everything - from feminism to environmental catastrophe; labour strikes to sex strikes; Little House On The Prairie to patriarchal terrorism. Lucy calls for a moratorium on air travel. She rails against bras. She gives Agatha Christie a drubbing. And she pleads for sanity in a world that has spent four years in the company of Donald Trump. Things Are Against Us is electric. It's vital. These are essays bursting with energy, and listening to them feels like sticking your hand in the mains socket. Lucy Ellmann is just the writer we need to guide us through these crazy times. 'Ellmann has long delighted in provocation.” THE NEW YORKER
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